Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Drawn and Quarterly just put out their third collection of John Stanely's Melvin Monster collection. There were only nine issues of Melvin, the tenth being a reprint of the fist. But I loved John Stanley'w work and his Melvins were replete with the kind of stuff he did so well. Here's a Melvin story I did just for fun and to see if I could do it. And of course as a tribute to Melvin and Mister Stanley.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Why comics are so much better now. Or were anyway... from the legendary COMIC BOOK NERD (from www.twomorrows.com if you wanna get one)... This was in disgusted reaction to the mania for Image comics and their ilk. Ugh. Actually this version differs in some respects from the one we used in the mag. So there's something new to see even if you have the mag. Whoop-de-doo!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Monday, July 4, 2011

The new idea is to mock up some poster type images for movies that might be re-made... only maybe better? So as not to pick on GOOD movies but rather ones that have room for improvement, you dig? So says Monsterologist Pete

Friday, July 1, 2011

It was the swingin' sixties! Monsters were big and hot rods were big- so somebody at Aurora plastics said "Hey! Let's put monsters in hot rods!" And so a series of strange hybrid monster/hot rod kits issued forth. Some people liked them- to be honest I thought they were stupid. BUT now in my ollllllld age I started thinking things like - "Hey! Monsters were big- and DINOSAURS were big- so why not Prehistoric MONSTERS!" Hence the attached. More "if I ran the show back in the day" nonsense, I know. But by god it came natural! And I would STILL dig kits like these.

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Pete

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Pete Von Sholly's storyboards for over 100 feature films include Dinotasia, Mars Attacks!, James and the Giant Peach, Darkman, The Mask, The Shawshank Redemption, The Blob, Nightmare on Elm Street III and IV, The Waterdance, The Green Mile, Click, The Mist and more. Pete has written and illustrated four graphic novels: Morbid, Morbid Volume 2 and Extremely Weird Stories, (Dark Horse Comics) and SPINECRAWLER from IDW- plus three satiric magazines for TwoMorrows, Crazy Hip Groovy Go Go Way Out Monsters (2 issues) and Comic Book Nerd which parodies comics fans and fanzines. Self-published titles from Vonshollywood Press include Sergeanstein, Dinosaur Circus and Here Doesn't Come the Flying F-ck. UPDATE- Pete has a pile of books coming next year (and later this one) from PS Publications including a collection of his gag cartoons, Fabulous Fictioneers: A History of the Incredible, several illustrated versions of classic Lovecraft stories and covers for Jess Nevins’ The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes and also a cover for S.T. Joshi’s novel The Assaults of Chaos from Hippocampus. His epic foldout mural Pete Von Sholly’s History Of Monsters is forthcoming from Abrams as well